EPS Prescribing System – Minimum Viable Product

This page provides the specification for a minimal EPS Prescribing system. This is being developed in the first instance to allow urgent and emergency care systems to generate EPS prescriptions, but could also be introduced to other settings. The specification documents below provide baseline functionality to which more functionality can be added within supplementary specifications.

MVP Functional Scope

The prescribing specification has been reduced to provide minimal functionality, ruling the following out of scope:

Repeat Dispensing prescriptions

Repeat Prescribing prescriptions

Delayed prescribing

Routine prescriptions

Nomination update

EPS Release 1

Patient consent flags

Non nominated prescriptions

EPS implementation phase modes

Post-dated prescriptions

DMS 3.3.0 prescription messaging

Repeat lists

Cancellation on deduction

Personal Administration

Protocol supply

Bulk signing

Single item cancellation

The functional requirements in scope are therefore;

Acute (one-off) prescriptions

Advanced electronic signatures

One-off nomination

Update of local patient demographic record with information from Spine Demographics

Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d)

Prescription cancellation

Prescription token printing

Reporting and information requirements

Specification Development

Some of the documents below are in draft form or are unapproved and are published for consultation; these should not be used to develop against. A more formal change control process will be documented in the near future.